A world transformed : firsthand accounts of California before the Gold Rush

by: Paddison, Joshua, 1974-

Publication date: 1998

Topics: To 1846, History: American, California - Local History, History - U.S., United States - State & Local - General, United States - 19th Century/Old West, Sources, California, 1846-1850, Biography, History

Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : Heyday Books

Collection: inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; china

Digitizing sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Includes bibliographical references and index

Account of the "sacred expedition," 1769 / Juan Crespí -- Journal of the first Spanish ship to enter San Francisco Bay, 1775 / Vicente Santa María -- Account of the founding of Mission Dolores, 1776 / Francisco Palóu -- from A voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, 1792 / George Vancouver -- The Rezanov voyage, 1806 / Nikolai Petrovich Rezanov and George von Langsdorff -- from A voyage around the world, 1816 / Adelbert von Chamisso -- Picturing a world transformed -- from Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, 1826 / Frederick William Beechey -- from Two years before the mast, 1835-36 / Richard Henry Dana, Jr. -- from An overland journey around the world, 1841-42 / Sir George Simpson -- from What I saw in California, 1846 / Edwin Bryant -- Reminiscences of early San Francisco, 1847-48 / Edward Kemble